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    The La Plata Museum (Spanish: Museo de La Plata) is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y...
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    La Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈplata]) is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a...
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    the La Plata University Radio, the La Plata University Press and numerous academic centers for research and outreach including La Plata Museum of Natural...
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    Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" is short for "Mar del Rio de la Plata," and means "sea of the Rio de la Plata basin" or "adjoining sea to the (River)...
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    La Plata (/ləˈpleɪtə/ -PLAY-tə) is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,159 at the 2020 census. It is the county...
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    Aires, where he took charge of La Plata Museum and the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the National University of La Plata. He received several awards during...
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    The La Plata dolphin, franciscana or toninha (Pontoporia blainvillei) is a species of river dolphin found in coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South...
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    years in Argentina as director of the Anthropological Section of the La Plata Museum and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He became an authority...
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    Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata; (French: Port-de-Plate) is a major coastal city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of...
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    the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located around the Río de la Plata in South America – in present-day Argentina and Uruguay...
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    Francisco Moreno (category Academic staff of the National University of La Plata)
    Moreno served as the first Director of Museo de la Plata, guiding it until 1906. As director of La Plata Museum of Natural History, Moreno sacked Florentino...
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  • Museum, Dunedin Te Papa, Wellington – Mehit-em-Wesekht, c. 300 BCE La Plata Museum Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum of Curitiba – Tothmea List of museums of...
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  • Osteologists frequently work in the public and private sector as consultants for museums, scientists for research laboratories, scientists for medical investigations...
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    Casa Rosada (category Museums in Buenos Aires)
    and of Argentina. The site, originally at the shoreline of the Río de la Plata, was first occupied by the "Fort of Juan Baltazar of Austria", a structure...
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    near Alma, Colorado and donated to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Exhibit in La Plata Museum, Argentina. The Alma Rose specimen from the Sweet...
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    and colleagues mentioned an additional femur that is housed in the La Plata Museum under the specimen number MLP-DP 46-VIII-21-3. Though not as strongly...
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  • Argentinian entomologist and archaeological collector. He worked at the La Plata Museum. Karl was born in Munich to Christian Bruch. Christian ran a printing...
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    Jurásico de Patagonia. Instituto del Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Notas del Museo de La Plata, Paleontología 12(95):1–17 Pol, D.; Gomez,...
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  • whom Moreno established as Head of the Paleontology Department at the La Plata Museum. In addition, Emilio Frey, son of a Swiss immigrant and educated in...
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  • From Sudan to Argentina (Spanish: De la Nubia a La Plata) is a 2022 Argentine-Sudanese documentary film written and directed by Ricardo Preve. The feature...
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    Curutchet House (category Buildings and structures in La Plata)
    The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier. It was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948 and included...
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  • La Plata is a ghost town in Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States. It was originally named Grenada and was established in 1890 by the XIT Ranch as a...
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    The Museum of Jewellery in the Vía de la Plata (Alhajas en la Vía de la Plata in Spanish) is located in the center of the town of La Bañeza (Province of...
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    as a welcome to visitors arriving from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rio de la Plata estuary, similar to the Pillars of Hercules. The ornamental spire aligns...
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    The museum owes its existence to a proposal made by Bernardino Rivadavia before the First Triumvirate of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in...
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    was the inspiration for the Blue Villa in Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1965 novel La Maison de rendez-vous. The Villa was built in 1891 by Manuel Ocampo, Victoria’s...
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    (IFAO). In October 2014, he became the 18th director-general of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC). On 23 March 2016, al-Anani became the Minister...
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    La Trochita (official name: Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railway...
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    of Natural Sciences ground sloth page Illinois State Museum ground sloth page Ground sloths at La Brea Eremotherium in Florida Have some ground sloths...
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    museum in Tacoronte. In the nineteenth century it was sold to the La Plata Museum in Argentina, reaching the hands of an unidentified collector. They...
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